Preferred Label : Confounding Effect;
NCIt synonyms : Confound;
NCIt related terms : confounding;
NCIt definition : Systematic error in the estimation of the effect of an investigational entity on an
outcome due to another factor that is associated with both the exposure and the outcome
but does not act through the predicted causal pathway between exposure and outcome.;
Alternative definition : MRCT-Ctr: When the study outcome is influenced by outside conditions that were not
expected by the study researchers. (https://mrctcenter.org/glossaryterm/confounding/);
NCI Metathesaurus CUI : CL1926542;
Origin ID : C203917;
UMLS CUI : C5909496;
Semantic type(s)
- concept_is_in_subset
